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BYLAWS
OF THE KANSAS
ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES
Adopted 1977; Revised
1979,1980,1981,1984,1985,1988,1999,2005,2006,2007
ARTICLE I
Name
The name of this non-profit organization shall be
the Kansas
Association of Family and Consumer Sciences,
henceforth referred to as
KAFCS or Association. It shall be an affiliate
of the American
Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
ARTICLE II
Purpose
The purpose of this association shall be to further
education in family
and consumer sciences. This shall include but not be
limited to the
following: improve and strengthen education in
family and consumer
sciences; establish and improve standards of service
and scientific
research in the public interest of family and
consumer sciences;
sponsor and otherwise support seminars, debates,
symposia, conferences
and similar professional discussions in family and
consumer sciences;
state and disseminate policy for professional
guidance at the state,
national, and international levels concerning the
public interest in
family and consumer sciences; identify and study
social, economic and
psychological changes having implications for
programs in family and
consumer sciences, and bring these changes to the
attention of the
family and consumer sciences professionals and the
public; encourage
and promote a sufficiently full and fair exposition
of the pertinent
fact involving legislation affecting family and
consumer sciences and
the improvement of home and family life as to permit
an individual
conclusion; and promote liaison and other
cooperative professional
activity with groups having related concerns in
behalf of the public
interest in family and consumer sciences.
ARTICLE III
Affiliation with American Association of Family and
Consumer Sciences
Section 1. This Association shall be an
affiliate of the American
Association of Family and Consumer Sciences,
henceforth referred to as
AAFCS, and shall adopt the Bylaws of AAFCS except
for the differences
noted in the Bylaws of KAFCS.
Section 2. This Association shall be
represented on the AAFCS
Board of Directors of AAFCS by the AAFCS Director of
Affiliates.
ARTICLE IV
Officers/Elections
Section 1. The elected officers of the
Association shall be
selected from active members only, and shall consist
of a president,
two vice-presidents, president-elect, secretary, and
treasurer.
Section 2. A non-elective officer shall be the
counselor.
The immediate past president shall serve as
counselor for one year.
Section 3. A slate of officers shall be selected by
the nominating
committee. The election will take place at the
General Assembly held at
the Annual Meeting. Nominations will be taken from
the floor. All
members are eligible to vote with the exception of
student or honorary
members (2006).
Section 4. A president-elect shall be elected
annually to serve
as president-elect for one year and as president for
one year.
The president-elect shall assume office as president
at the beginning
of the fiscal year following the term of office as
president-elect. A current or former member of
the Executive
Board shall be eligible for the office of president.
Section 5. The vice-president-program and
public relations shall
be elected in even-numbered years. The
vice-president-operations
and recognition shall be elected in odd-numbered
years. Each
vice-president shall be elected to serve for two
years.
Section 6. A recording secretary shall be
elected in even years
for a term of two years.
Section 7. A treasurer shall be elected in odd
numbered years for
a term of two years.
Section 8. The vice-presidents, treasurer, and
recording
secretary, shall assume office at the beginning of
the KAFCS fiscal
year following the annual meeting of the Association
at which their
election is announced.
Section 9. Nominating Committee. The
dues of this committee
of three shall be to submit a slate of officers
(2005). This
committee of three shall include the counselor with
the two other
members appointed at the Spring Board meeting as
outlined in Article
IV, Section 9. The chairman of this committee
shall be designated
by the KAFCS president from the elected and
appointed members.
(2006).
The slate of officers shall be presented at the
winter Executive
Committee meeting (2006)
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Section 10. Election shall be by the majority
of votes cast.
Section 11. In case of vacancies in elective
offices, the president may
appoint members to fill unexpired terms with the
exception of the
president-elect, who shall be elected by the
Executive Board from
qualified membership as defined in Article IV,
Section 4.
ARTICLE V
Functions of Officers/Executive Board Members
Section 1. The functions of the elected
officers of the
Association are as defined below:
The PRESIDENT shall be the executive officer of the
Association, shall
give general supervision and leadership to
organizational policies and
program, and shall be the chairman of the executive
board and the
executive committee. The president shall
appoint all committees,
the appointment of which is not otherwise
specifically provided
for. The president shall appoint members to
fill unexpired terms
in case of vacancies in both elective and appointive
offices with the
exception of the president-elect. In case of a
vacancy in the
president's office the president-elect shall fill
the unexpired term.
Additional specific functions of the president are
to:
Serve as deputy treasurer;
Appoint a parliamentarian if necessary;
Be a member of the Senate and officially represent
the Kansas
Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in the
Senate and in the
affiliates unit of AAFCS and report on these
meetings to the KAFCS
Executive Committee;
Serve as liaison officer with the AAFCS and State
organizations of
interest to KAFCS;
Appoint the chairman of the nominating committee;
Serve as counselor the year following the term of
presidency; and
Appoint an auditing committee of at least three
members when necessary.
Section 2. The PRESIDENT-ELECT shall be a
voting member of the
Executive Board and the Executive Committee.
If the president’s
office is vacated, the president-elect shall serve
as president for the
unexpired term. The president-elect shall
coordinate cooperative
relations activities of the association and be
responsible for
maintaining communications and coordinating
activities with other
associations and agencies. The president-elect
shall co-chair the
Bylaws committee with the counselor.
Section 3. The VICE-PRESIDENT
OPERATION/RECOGNITION shall be a
voting member of the Executive Board and the
Executive Committee.
The vice-president for operations shall coordinate
the activities of
the professional/graduate section, standing
committees, and shall
perform the duties of the president in the
president's absence.
b) The Vice-President-Operations and Recognition
shall oversee
activities related to:
1)
Approving district
allocations from KAFCS
2) KAFCS
recognition and awards
for:
Leader of the
Year
Martha
Streeter New Achiever
Teacher of the
Year
Friend of
Family and Consumer Sciences
Distinguished
Service Award
Extension 2000
50-year
members
Student
Recognition
3)
Communicating with membership
through KAFCS Newsletter and updates, and
communicating with District
Presidents.
4) Sharing
responsibilities with
Vice-President-Program and Public Relations to
provide Board Orientation
Section 4. The VICE-PRESIDENT PROGRAM/PUBLIC
RELATIONS shall be a
voting member of the Executive Board and Executive
Committee. The
vice-president for program development shall chair
the program of work
committee, which includes president-elect,
representatives of
divisions, professional sections, action groups, and
district
presidents, and shall serve as advisor to the annual
meeting program
committee.
a) The vice-president-program and public
relations shall oversee
activities related to:
1)
Promoting membership,
interpreting policies in regard to membership,
developing active
recruitment, and forward to AAFCS eligible
applications for membership.
2) marketing
initiatives as
charged by the Executive Board and within interests
of AAFCS, serve as
a FACS representative on marketing coalitions with
Kansas Association
Teachers of Family and Consumer Sciences (KATFACS)
and Kansas Extension
Agents-Family and Consumer Sciences (KEAFCS) to
expand and improve
knowledge, understanding and appreciate the family
and consumers
sciences profession.
3)
Communicating to and from
members relative to legislative issues
4)
Communicating with membership
through KAFCS Newsletter and updates, and
communicating with District
Presidents
5) Sharing
responsibilities with
Vice-President-Operations and Recognition to provide
Board Orientation.
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Section 5. The SECRETARY shall be a voting
member of the
Executive Board and the Executive Committee.
Specific
responsibilities of the secretary are to: record
minutes of all
business meetings of the Executive Board and the
Executive Committee;
distribute the minutes of each meeting to members of
the Executive
Board; record minutes of the KAFCS assembly; prepare
all notices and
conduct such correspondence as the governing bodies
may direct.
Section 6. The TREASURER shall be a voting
member of the
Executive Board and the Executive Committee and be
responsible for all
fiscal matters. Specific responsibilities of
the treasurer
are: accept a set of books which has been
audited; disperse money
as authorized by the Executive Committee; account
for all money
receipts; submit reports of receipts and
disbursements to the executive
board and the membership at the annual business
meeting; present the
proposed annual budget to the Executive Board.
Funds allowed by
the approved budget may be disbursed by the
treasurer without action by
the executive committee. All money shall be
paid by check.
The treasurer shall be bonded and shall be
responsible for purchasing
the bond. Books shall be audited by an
auditing committee
appointed by the president. In the absence of
the treasurer, the
deputy treasurer shall take over the duties of the
treasurer
Section 7. The COUNSELOR shall be a voting
member of the
Executive Board and the Executive Committee and
serve on the nominating
committee. The counselor shall serve as
co-chair of the bylaws
committee and as an advisor to the president.
Section 8. The Pre-Professional/Graduate
Student President shall
be a voting member of the Executive Board and the
Executive Committee.
P/GS vice president shall serve on the annual
meeting committee.
Section 9. District Presidents shall be voting
members of the
Executive Board.
ARTICLE VI
Governing Bodies; Functions
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Section 1. The Executive Board of this
Association shall consist
of the elected officers of the Association and the
counselor; chairman
of standing committees; and any other members
designated by the
Executive Board. The aforementioned shall have a
vote. Non-voting
members are the Executive Director, Foundation
President, and Liaisons.
Section 2. Functions of the Executive Board of
the Association
are:
Administer the business of the Association and refer
to the assembly of
members such matters as it deems desirable and as
are required by the
bylaws;
Receive and act on committee reports;
Approve a yearly budget and program of work;
Determine dates and places for the meetings of the
Association and have
the power to cancel annual meeting in the event of
an emergency;
Recommend new committees and discontinuance of those
whose work is no
longer needed;
Provide for cooperation with other groups through
appropriate
means. This shall include appointment of
representatives and
membership on joint committees;
Consider the general policies of the Association and
submit its
recommendations to the assembly of members;
Meet immediately before the annual meeting and other
times on call of
the president;
Approve the annual committee chairperson and the
future meeting site(s)
submitted by the president-elect;
Select a nominating committee (2 members) at the
spring board
meeting;
Elect a president-elect in case of a vacancy; and
Designate banks to be used as depositories of
Association funds and
direct the investment of all funds of the
Association held for
investment.
Section 3. A majority of the currently serving
members of the
Executive Board shall constitute a quorum.
Section 4. The Executive Committee shall
consist of the elected
officers of the Association and the counselor.
Section 5. Functions of the Executive
Committee are to act for
the Executive Board between meetings of the board
and be on call of the
president;
May employ an executive director; and
Set policies regarding conditions of employment of
the executive
director.
Section 6. Two-thirds of the voting members of
the Executive
Committee shall constitute a quorum.
ASSEMBLY OF MEMBERS
Section 7. The assembly of members shall meet
annually at the
time of the annual business meeting and transact
business as may
properly come before it.
Section 8. Functions of the assembly of members are
to:
Convene at the time of the annual business meeting
of the Association;
Receive and act on reports from officers, and
committees of the
Association;
Approve an annual financial report; adopt a program
of work, and
resolutions;
Transact any business as may properly come before
the assembly of
members and act upon recommendations submitted by
the executive board;
and
give guidance to state delegates to the AAFCS
Senate.
Section 9. The KAFCS members present at the
annual assembly of
members shall constitute a quorum.
Section 10. The Kansas Association of Family
and Consumer
Sciences shall be represented in the AAFCS Senate by
(1) the President
of KAFCS or alternate; (2) The President-elect of
KAFCS or alternate;
(3) additional at-large delegates as membership
permits.
ARTICLE VII
Membership, Dues, Privileges
Section 1. Membership shall consist of two
categories, individual
and organizational.
Section 2. The membership of the Association
shall have the
opportunity to communicate and organize into
divisions, professional
sections. Divisions reflect the subject
knowledge bases of the
profession. Professional sections reflect the
professional
settings within which the profession is
practiced. Action groups
reflect timely issues in which AAFCS/KAFCS can
assume a critical role.
Members may affiliate with one division and one
professional section as
part of their basic dues structure.
Section 3. Individual members shall be active,
supporting
associate, retired, preprofessional/graduate
student, or honorary as
defined in AAFCS bylaws Article VII,
Dues for individual shall be the same as AAFCS
as described in
Article VII, Section 3, (a) and (b) with the
following exception:
(1) A life member who became a life member before
June, 1973 and has
not paid state life membership dues shall pay a
state dues through the
age of 62 and no dues thereafter. This amount
shall be paid to
the state treasurer and AAFCS shall be notified.
Section 4. Membership privileges for active,
supporting,
associate, retired, preprofessional/graduate student
or honorary
members shall be the same as defined for AAFCS.
Members shall receive
all copies of KAFCS NEWSLETTER, the official
publication of the
Association.
Section 5. Organizational members. An
organizational member
shall be an organized group or business whose
members are not eligible
for individual membership in KAFCS. Such a
group should have
purposes in common with KAFCS and the organizational
membership would
result in mutual benefit for the two organizations.
Section 6. Annual dues for organizational
members shall be
established by the Executive Board.
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Section 7. All organizational members shall
receive one (1)
subscription to the official publication of the
Association and such
privileges as may be established by the Executive
Board.
ARTICLE VIII
Duties of Committees
Section 1. The Association will have the
following standing
committees: bylaws, nominating, and annual
meeting.
(1) BYLAWS COMMITTEE. This committee,
co-chaired by
counselor and president-elect, shall make and/or
receive proposed
amendments to the bylaws. It shall present
proposed amendments to
the executive committee for review and
recommendation and, with the
approval of the executive board, prepare a copy of
proposed amendments
to be presented to the membership at the annual
meeting, in accordance
with Article XIV of the bylaws.
(2) NOMINATING COMMITTEE. The duties of
this committee of
three shall be to submit a slate of officers. This
committee shall
include the counselor with the other two members
being appointed by the
Executive Board at the spring Board meeting as
outlined in Article IV,
Section 9. (2006)
(3) ANNUAL MEETING COMMITTEE. The committee
shall be appointed by
the president-elect and shall include the
vice-president- program and
public relations and the preprofessional/graduate
section
vice-president. Its duties shall include
planning the annual
meeting emphasizing the program of work; proposing
future annual
meeting sites and, recommending policies pertaining
to the annual
meeting.
(4) The Association may appoint standing committees
as needed.
These committees shall report to the Executive
Board.
Section 2. The president of the Association
shall appoint the
chairmen of those committees not otherwise specified
in the bylaws.
Section 3. Reports of general
interest to the general
membership shall be given at the annual business
meeting of the
Association as requested by the Executive Board
and/or its individual
members. Written reports of standing
committees shall be
submitted to the Executive Board.
Additional reports shall
be submitted as directed by the Executive Board.
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ARTICLE IX
Liaisons: Foundation and Collaboratives
Section 1. Liaisons are non-voting, invited
constituents, who
assist in carrying out the purpose of family and
consumer sciences
(Article II). Their function is to keep the
Executive Board
advised (informed) on new development in their
programs that impact the
KAFCS programs of work, send items of interest and
activities to the
NEWSLETTER editor, and other cooperative
professionals activity of
related concerns in behalf of public interest in
family and consumer
sciences.
Section 2. The Executive Board shall provide,
from the funds of
the Kansas Affiliate of AAFCS, such appropriations
toward the work of
the committees as the funds may permit.
Requests for funds shall
be submitted to the treasurer to be considered for
the proposed budget
for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE X
Meetings
There shall be an annual meeting of the Association
at such time and
place as the Executive Board shall determine.
The meeting shall
be open to all members. Business shall be
transacted by majority
vote of the members present and voting. In the
event of an
emergency, the annual meeting may be canceled by the
Executive
Board. Meeting of the Executive Board shall be
at the time of the
annual meeting and at the call of the president or
at the request of
any three members of the Executive Board.
ARTICLE XI
Newsletter
This Association shall publish as its official
publication the KAFCS
NEWSLETTER. Number of yearly issues shall be
determined by the
Executive Board.
ARTICLE XII
Parliamentary Authority
Except as otherwise provided in its bylaws and
standing rules, the
Association shall be governed in its proceedings by
Robert's Rules of
Order, Newly Revised.
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ARTICLE XIII
Fiscal Year
The fiscal year of KAFCS shall be from June 1 to May
31.
ARTICLE XIV
Amendments
Section 1. These bylaws may be amended by vote
of two-thirds
(2/3) of the members present at any Association
meeting provided that
proposed amendments have been presented to the
Executive Board of the
Association for adoption.
Section 2. Unless otherwise provided prior to
its adoption or in
the motion to adopt, an amendment shall take effect
at the close of the
Annual Meeting at which it is adopted. (2007)
Section 3. Any amendment adopted by AAFCS
affection the work of
the Kansas Affiliate or the members in the state
shall become the law
of the Kansas Affiliate without further notice
(2007).
ARTICLE XV
Tax-Exempt Status
Section 1. The Association is a
non-stock and
non-profit corporation. No part of the net
earnings of the
Association shall inure to the benefit of, or be
distributable to, its
directors, officers, or other private person, except
that the
Association shall be authorized or empowered to pay
reasonable
compensation for services rendered and to make
payments and
distributions to further the objective set forth in
Article III of the
Articles of Incorporation. No substantial part
of the
Association's activities shall be invested in
carrying on propaganda or
otherwise attempting to influence legislation.
The Association
shall not participate in, or intervene in, any
political campaign on
behalf of any candidate for public office.
Notwithstanding any of
the provisions in the Articles of Incorporation, the
Association shall
not carry on any other activities not permitted to
be carried on:
(a) by a corporation exempt from federal income tax
under section 501
(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or
corresponding
provisions of any future U.S. internal revenue law)
or (b) by a
corporation, contributions to which are deductible
under section 170
(c) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or
corresponding
provisions of any future U.S. internal revenue law).
Section 2. If in any one year the Association
is found to be a
private foundation, then, and in that event, its
income for each
taxable year shall be distributed at such time and
in such manner as to
not subject the foundation to tax under section 4942
of the Internal
Revenue Code. The foundation shall not engage
in any act of
self-dealing (as defined in Section 4941(d) of the
Internal Revenue
Code), shall not retain any excess business holdings
(as defined in
Section 4943(c) of the Internal Revenue Code), shall
not make any
investments in such manner as to subject the
foundation to tax under
Section 4944 of the Internal Revenue Code, and shall
not make any
taxable expenditures (as defined in Section 4945(d)
of the Internal
Revenue Code).
Defense and Indemnification
Section 1. To the extent permitted by
law, the Association
shall defend and/or indemnify any person who was or
is a party
defendant or is threatened with being made a party
defendant to any
legal action, suit, or proceeding (other than an
action, suit or
proceeding by or in the right of the Association) by
reason of the fact
that he/she is or was a director, officer, employee,
or agent of the
Association, or is or was so serving at the
Association's request for
another profit or not-for-profit corporation,
against expenses actually
and necessarily incurred by him/her in connection
with the defense of
such legal action, suit, or proceeding, except in
relation to matters
as to which he/she shall be adjudged in such legal
action, suit, or
proceeding to be liable for negligence or misconduct
in the performance
of his/her duty to the Association. The
termination of any legal
action, suit, or proceeding by judgment, order
settlement, conviction,
or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent,
shall not of
itself create a presumption that the person did not
act in good faith
or in a manner which he/she reasonably believed to
be in the
Association's best interest. To the extent
that the court or body
in or before which such legal action, suit or
proceeding was finally
determined has not addressed the question of
negligence or misconduct
in the performance of the person's duty to the
Association, a
determination that indemnification is proper shall
be made by a
majority vote of the Board of Directors. In
the event of
settlement of a legal action, suit, or proceeding,
indemnification
shall be made up to the amount that would reasonably
have been expended
in the defense, as provided for by the Board of
Directors.
Indemnification shall not be deemed exclusive of any
other rights to
which the director, officer, employee, or agent may
be entitled under
any Bylaw, agreement, vote of Board of Directors or
members, or
otherwise.
ARTICLE XVII
Dissolution
In the event of dissolution or termination of the
Association, the
Board of Directors shall, after paying all the
liabilities of the
Association, dispose of all of the assets of the
Association
exclusively for the objectives of the Association in
such manner or to
such organization or organizations organized
exclusively for
charitable, education, religious, or scientific
purposes and at the
time qualify as an exempt organization or
organizations under Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or
corresponding
provisions of any future U.S. as the Board shall
determine. Any
of such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed
of by the court of
proper jurisdiction exclusively for such purposes or
to such
organizations organized and operated exclusively for
such purposes,
which the court shall determine.
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